Skip to main content
Postgraduate Medical Journal logoLink to Postgraduate Medical Journal
. 1977 May;53(619):285–286. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.53.619.285

Staphylococcal septicaemia with disseminated intravascular coagulation associated with acupuncture.

E Izatt, M Fairman
PMCID: PMC2496574  PMID: 876942

Abstract

A case of disseminated intravascular coagulation due to staphylococcal septicaemia is described in which the source of infection was likely to have been acupuncture therapy.

Full text

PDF
285

Selected References

These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.

  1. Carron H., Epstein B. S., Grand B. Complications of acupuncture. JAMA. 1974 Jun 17;228(12):1552–1554. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  2. Hussain K. K. Serum hepatitis associated with repeated acupunctures. Br Med J. 1974 Jul 6;3(5922):41–42. doi: 10.1136/bmj.3.5922.41-c. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  3. Keller W. J., Parker S. G., Garvin J. P. Possible renal complications of acupuncture. JAMA. 1972 Dec 18;222(12):1559–1559. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Articles from Postgraduate Medical Journal are provided here courtesy of BMJ Publishing Group

RESOURCES